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At The Consultants-E we help educators worldwide become more comfortable with technology in their teaching. This blog highlights technology trends, and offers tips and guidance on how to use technology in the classroom and online, based on several years of experience of helping teachers worldwide integrate technology effectively. We hope you enjoy it!

Gavin and Nicky's new book GOING MOBILE, from Delta Publishing, is the first published book on mobile and handheld learning in ELT.

Starting with an overview of mlearning and moving through a rationale and a set of practical case studies from around the world, the book will provide you with a set of sample activities to try out with your classes, and also help you envisage, develop and implement your own mLearning plan in your institution or organisation.

Firmly grounded in the practical, this is one book you will want to read if you're looking at mobile devices or tablets in teaching or training...

The top four technologies in Round 1 Results of the Horizon Report for Higher Education - but which may well provide useful pointers for us in language education - to be adopted within one year or less are:

Flipped Classroom

Learning Analytics

Massive Open Online Courses

BOYD

Flipped Classroom

Learning Analytics

Massive Open Online Courses

Over the coming weeks we will be looking at each of these in turn. First - BYOD.

1. What is BOYD?

BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device. Although we have see that many schools and institutions have started allowing students to use their own devices in the classroom, there is a ...

Our most recent newsletter featured the following QR Code Guide by Nicky Hockly. Subscribe for free to keep updated with these great materials we share by clicking here.

1. What Are QR Codes?

You know those bar codes you see on supermarket products? A QR code is similar to that. It’s information encoded in a two-dimensional graphic. Whereas a supermarket bar code consists of vertical lines, a QR code encodes info vertically and horizontally – so you can get more info on it. You scan QR codes with your mobile phone (more on this in point 3 below). There is of course a limit to the amount of information you can put in a QR code. Typically a code will include a short amount of text, up to a couple of lines. No adding War and Peace or the Complete works of Shakespeare in a simple code. Or a ...

The mLearning in Practice online course begins April 19th and prepares teachers for teaching/learning with mobile devices, such as cell phones, tablets, smart phones, and iPads. The teachers and tutors in our courses create, curate, and collect various free resources for teachers. Below are a list of these valuable resources and some important news.

You may not have discovered our database of free mobile learning lesson plans we update regularly. These great lesson plans are created by the teachers who participate in our online courses. The lesson plans are used in their classrooms with their English language learners. Our latest contribution, Creating Mobile Audio Guides, was created by Teresa Tiel. This is what Teresa had to say about her experience taking the Mlearning in Practice course:"This is a course I cannot recommend highly enough to any colleague... Thetutor for this course is first class. Carol has the ideal blend of know-how,inquiry, enthusiasm, motivation and good organisation. Carol alwaysresponded promptly, often several times a day and followed up allquestions,comments, tasks, and enquiries... [It's] an excellent course forany language teacher or teacher educator who is seeking a short professionaldevelopment course to inspire and motivate them for the ...